{"id":1595,"date":"2021-08-14T23:55:40","date_gmt":"2021-08-14T13:55:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.hegars.com\/?p=1595"},"modified":"2021-08-15T02:48:01","modified_gmt":"2021-08-14T16:48:01","slug":"telephone-mini-motor-selector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.hegars.com\/?p=1595","title":{"rendered":"Telephone Mini Motor Selector"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I found this cool little old telephone selector on ebay, no idea of its age or origin. It looks to have 8 primary to 12 contacts per  layer (Common to 0-9,-,N) the 9th layer looks disconnected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It looks to be a quadrant selector with four armatures per layer allowing for rapid selection, allowing for two of the four arms to be selecting the common at all times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"462\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.hegars.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/s-l1600-1024x462.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1596\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.hegars.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/s-l1600-1024x462.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.hegars.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/s-l1600-300x135.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.hegars.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/s-l1600-768x346.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.hegars.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/s-l1600-1536x693.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blog.hegars.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/s-l1600-1080x487.jpg 1080w, 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768w, https:\/\/blog.hegars.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/s-l1600-2-1-1536x693.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blog.hegars.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/s-l1600-2-1-1080x487.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/blog.hegars.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/s-l1600-2-1-1280x577.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/blog.hegars.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/s-l1600-2-1-980x442.jpg 980w, https:\/\/blog.hegars.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/s-l1600-2-1-480x216.jpg 480w, https:\/\/blog.hegars.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/s-l1600-2-1.jpg 1599w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"462\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.hegars.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/s-l1600-3-2-1024x462.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1602\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.hegars.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/s-l1600-3-2-1024x462.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.hegars.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/s-l1600-3-2-300x135.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.hegars.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/s-l1600-3-2-768x346.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.hegars.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/s-l1600-3-2-1536x693.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blog.hegars.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/s-l1600-3-2-1080x487.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/blog.hegars.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/s-l1600-3-2-1280x577.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/blog.hegars.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/s-l1600-3-2-980x442.jpg 980w, https:\/\/blog.hegars.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/s-l1600-3-2-480x216.jpg 480w, https:\/\/blog.hegars.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/s-l1600-3-2.jpg 1599w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"462\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.hegars.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/s-l1600-4-1024x462.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1603\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.hegars.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/s-l1600-4-1024x462.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.hegars.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/s-l1600-4-300x135.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.hegars.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/s-l1600-4-768x346.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.hegars.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/s-l1600-4-1536x693.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blog.hegars.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/s-l1600-4-1080x487.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/blog.hegars.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/s-l1600-4-1280x577.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/blog.hegars.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/s-l1600-4-980x442.jpg 980w, https:\/\/blog.hegars.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/s-l1600-4-480x216.jpg 480w, https:\/\/blog.hegars.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/s-l1600-4.jpg 1599w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Re-creation<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>So before I&#8217;ve even receive this I decided to recreate it just from the images, will most likely drive it by a stepper motor for simplicity because I&#8217;m not a clock maker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"564\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.hegars.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/lineselector2-1024x564.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1607\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.hegars.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/lineselector2-1024x564.png 1024w, https:\/\/blog.hegars.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/lineselector2-300x165.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.hegars.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/lineselector2-768x423.png 768w, https:\/\/blog.hegars.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/lineselector2-1536x846.png 1536w, https:\/\/blog.hegars.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/lineselector2-1080x595.png 1080w, https:\/\/blog.hegars.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/lineselector2-1280x705.png 1280w, 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It looks to have 8 primary to 12 contacts per layer (Common to 0-9,-,N) the 9th layer looks disconnected. It looks to be a quadrant selector with four armatures per layer allowing for rapid selection, allowing for two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-container-style":"default","site-container-layout":"default","site-sidebar-layout":"default","disable-article-header":"default","disable-site-header":"default","disable-site-footer":"default","disable-content-area-spacing":"default","footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.hegars.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1595"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.hegars.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.hegars.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.hegars.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.hegars.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1595"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/blog.hegars.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1621,"href":"https:\/\/blog.hegars.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1595\/revisions\/1621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.hegars.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.hegars.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.hegars.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}